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Nikolaus Augsten is a professor in the Department of Com puter Science at the University of Salzburg, Austria, where he heads the Database Group. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Aalborg University, Denmark, in 2008, and holds a M.Sc. degree from Graz University of Technol ogy, Austria. Prior to joining the University of Salzburg in 2013, he was an assistant professor at the Free University of Bolzano, Italy. He was on leave at TU München, Germany, in 2010/2011 and visited Washington State University for six months in 2005/2006. His main research interests include sim ilarity search queries over massive data collections, approximate matching techniques for complex data structures, efficient in dex structures for distance computations, and top-k queries. For his work on top-k approximate subtree matching he received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering in 2010. Currently, he serves as an Associate Editor for the VLDB Journal.Michael H. Böhlen is a professor of computer science at the University of Zürich where he heads the Database Technology Group. His research interests include various aspects of data management, and have focused on time-varying information, data warehousing and data analysis, and similarity search. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from ETH Zürich in 1990 and 1994, respectively. Before joining the University of Zürich he visited the University of Arizona for one year, and was a faculty member at Aalborg University for eight years and the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano for six years. He was pro gram co-chair of the 39th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases and served as an Associate Editor for the VLDB Journal. He served as a PC member for SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, and EDBT. Cur rently, he serves as an Associate Editor for ACM TODS, and he is a member of the VLDB Endowment’s Board of Trustees